I like to think of natural silence as the canvas upon which other sounds are painted. (Dr. Timothy C Mullet)
ABOUT ME
Reading Time: < 1 minute My name is Marco Pesente, I live in the province of Verona (North-Est Italy). From the late 1970s I delighted in obtaining audio recordings of all beings that in nature emits songs, calls and noises, with particular regard to the bird songs, but also…
Mission
Reading Time: < 1 minute This is not meant to be an exhaustive website on the recording of “sounds” that can be “captured” in nature, there are already dozens of excellent sites where the various audio recording techniques are reported more or less in-depth.The purpose I set for myself…
CONTACTS
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Ortolan Bunting
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ortolan bunting song. Recorded using a mid MONO parabolic microphone – 2 x Primo EM172 caps and a 33 cm dish.Filmed with a Sony Nex6 + adapter and a Lens Nikon 400/5,6 IF-ED. Special thanks to Gastone Pivatelli.
Learn MoreGlaucidium passerinum by Grégory Chamming’s
Reading Time: 2 minutes “I hadn’t been back to visit the tiny Golden-eyed Owl (who lives in the forest above my house) for 15 days already… So I put down a little microphone, after spending 2 hours with her, and the incessant comings and goings, male and female,…
Small 25 cm Parabola Vs. Onboard Mics ZOOM H1
Reading Time: < 1 minute Parabolic Stereo Microphone 25 cm dish 1+1 AOM 5024 capsules ZOOM H1 First three Blackbir songs with a ZOOM H1 old type and small 25 cm stereo parabola;last two songs with onboard Mics of ZOOM H1- AS RECORDED __________________________________________________________________________________ ALL NORMALIZED up to -3dB
XVIVE XV1r Vs. ZOOM H1e – H1n * only Plug In Power Mic IN TEST
Reading Time: 2 minutes * UPDATE – I finally ran the test for the onboard microphones as well. See the last two MP3 audio files with the recordings first as recorded, then Normalized to -3dB. See also the spectrogram image of the file normalized to -3dB for the…